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Michael Hudson

Libertarian Fantasy, Police State Reality - .. pits Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff’s analyses against U.S. overreach: tariffs that stall reshoring, austerity for social services, and militarized ...
4 hours ago
Overcoming Bias

How Limit “Gambling”? - While every choice under certainty is in some sense a “gamble”, humans have often gone out of their way to create “gambling” contexts where they can more q...
7 hours ago
The Philosopher's Beard

If Climate Change Is As Bad As Activists Say, Their Demand Should Be 'Geoengineering Now'! - Some climate activists claim to believe that climate change is an existential threat to humanity, if not the entire biosphere. This is the justification ...
11 hours ago
oftwominds

The True Meaning of Stoicism - *Self-discipline isn't supposed to be punishing. Rather, it's friendly and encouraging. The encouraging Master is strict only in holding fast to moderation...
11 hours ago
Why Evolution Is True

The Free Press touts God again, celebrating some intellectuals who have embraced Christianity - Something strange is happening to the mainstream media in the U.S. Supposedly objective, its venues now spend a good bit of its time touting something for...
11 hours ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

The Global AI Race: Z.ai and the View from Beijing — Manifold #96 - Zixuan Li is Director of Product and genAI Strategy at Z.ai.
14 hours ago
Farnam Street

Tracy Britt Cool: Brick by Brick - Warren Buffett called Tracy Britt Cool his “fireman” due to her reputation at Berkshire Hathaway for turning around struggling businesses. Today, Britt C...
17 hours ago
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

How our "knowledge system" catastrophizes the side-effects of fossil fuels - A summary of Fossil Future, Chapter 2
1 day ago
Interdependent Thoughts

- Working from Berlin this week. Spending the week in this office of DIN, the German standards institute. The creation of European (harmonised) standards for...
1 day ago
Noahpinion

Malaysia: Truly Asia - A brief visit to a country that has mostly made it.
1 day ago
Schneier on Security

Flok License Plate Surveillance - The company Flok is surveilling us as we drive: A retired veteran named Lee Schmidt wanted to know how often Norfolk, Virginia’s 176 Flock Safety automat...
1 day ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Sad and happy day - Today, of course, is the second anniversary of the genocidal Oct. 7 invasion of Israel—the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, and the event that l...
2 days ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

Are the new national accounts guidelines any good? 5. The (not so) informal economy - Summary: the formal-informal dichotomy is not fit to distinguish economic activities in a coherent way and has to be replaced by a scheme that shows out ho...
2 days ago
Our Finite World

What has gone wrong with the economy? Can it be fixed? - I don't believe that the situation is hopeless. At the end, I discuss where we are now, relative to historical patterns, and some reasons to be optimistic ...
3 days ago
John Quiggin

Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...
4 days ago
Azimuth

Negative Mass (Part 2) - I’m trying to lose weight. I was so happy when I saw my local pastry shop sold negative-mass doughnuts! But what happened next really freaked me out. Hear ...
4 days ago
Casey Handmer's blog

Career Development Guide for Job Seekers - Context October 2025: With the government shut down and NASA JPL business in apparent terminal decline, I have received numerous inbounds from former colle...
6 days ago
Planetocracy

Mass Value Report for September 2025 - What have the big players been up to this month?
1 week ago
dale lane

Event-driven sessions at IBM TechXchange 2025 - Next week, I’ll be at IBM TechXchange: our annual technical learning conference. Our other big annual event Think had a business focus, but TechXchange is ...
1 week ago
The Snow Report

Green lights at Blue Haven: A primary principal’s story of school transformation - Image source: MS PPT *Much has been written and debated about evidence-based practice in education in the last decade or so, particularly as this perta...
1 week ago
Rodney Brooks

Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity - In this post I explain why today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of dollar...
1 week ago
Climate Etc.

Natural Selection of Bad Science. Part II - by John Ridgway In an earlier essay [1] I explained how positive feedbacks can lead to potentially problematic scientific mono-cultures. I also acknowled...
2 weeks ago
Club Troppo

Seeing and not seeing: building and forgetting - You might have seen the picture above. It’s the Tacoma Narrows bridge which collapsed a few weeks after being built. Why? Well what you can see here is the...
2 weeks ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

New book: The Story of Capital - My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by Verso.
2 weeks ago
The Ethical Skeptic

The Final Step of the Scientific Method - An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence. You shall know them by their habit: ...
4 weeks ago
Windows On Theory

CS 2881: AI Safety - The webpage for my AI safety course is on https://boazbk.github.io/mltheoryseminar/ including homework zero, video of first lecture and slides. Future blog...
4 weeks ago
C21st Left

What have I done?? No doubt a terrible thing! - I never forgot this cartoon strip that I first encountered in my first year at La Trobe University, Melbourne, in 1969. I was pleased to recently rediscove...
1 month ago
Tekkie

What really happened to object-oriented programming? - I saw a question on Quora asking something like, “Why did Alan Kay’s OOP always fail, and the OOP that was implemented as C++, Java, Delphi, etc. always su...
2 months ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

Fractured bones, fractured mind - [image: Two x-rays, one showing lungs, the other showing a displaced and fractured right clavicle.]Pretty pictures of my broken torso. Five weeks ago my bi...
2 months ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Complicating the IPCC Planck Feedback, Plank #4 of Climate Resilience Theory - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has an idea about how the Earth cools itself: when the planet’s surface warms up, it sends more heat...
4 months ago
Computing Education Blog

Seeking K-12 Computing Teachers With Emerging Bilingual students in their classes - Emma Dodoo is a PhD student working with me. Emma works with K-12 computing teachers who have emerging bilingual (EB) students in their classes, e.g., stud...
4 months ago
danah boyd | apophenia

Five Attitudes Towards Climate Change (and the impact on our society) - For years, I thought that there were two “sides” to the discussion around climate change. There were the people who believed in the science and the people ...
5 months ago
STRANGE TIMES

Good News Ukraine. - Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry Occupies” and drones are...
6 months ago
Eli Dourado

Cargo airships are happening - I got something wrong; introducing Airship Industries
11 months ago
Invent To Learn

Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation) - Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo idėjos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idėja – mokytis darant. Visada išmokstama ger...
1 year ago
FabLearn Fellows

Marble Maze Modules - Beyond the Marble: How Modular Mazes Build Skills and Spark Wonder Building a marble maze is more than just a fun challenge—it’s a gateway to exploring a w...
1 year ago
Milky Eggs

Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction - Thinking about longevity practically is a tricky affair. On the one hand, we have very little definitive knowledge about how to prolong your healthy years ...
2 years ago
Mr. Y's Lab Notes

- Building An Inexpensive Robot With micro:bit I just released the source code and a tutorial on building a remote controlled robot using the micro:bit. T...
7 years ago